skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny thing, in the last story, while it says Brazil, the background is from Women's Bridge (Puente de la Mujer) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_de_la_Mujer
"As show on pages 105-107" looks much better than "As shown in sections 4.5.4, 5.1 and 5.1.2". Really. You don't have the first option with HTML and/or sphinx. Oh, and can I have some bold italic text please?
There is a generator on Codepen that allows you to do this, that probably deserves more praise: http://codepen.io/blazeeboy/pen/bCaLE
HTTP/2.0 - What is it and Why Should You Care?
Thanks, when I posted there was no advice in the comments, just inquiries related to buying it. Upvoted, good luck!
Google Launches Micropayments for Web Content
Obvious troll is obvious. Usually these types of comments get down voted into oblivion by god-like powers, but I guess this one is spared since it's attacking MS.
It is trivial to build a lyrics site, and it would be very helpful to search users who so often search for lyrics and wind up on shitty websites.
Correct, but the idea is that you'd just throw away the account that goes down.
Nice! But on a netbook if I reduce the font to try to get both the Democrip and Rebloodlican halves on the screen, the Rebloodlican side just disappears.
We have weeded out a bunch of stuff and are actually handling n-grams, but apparently not with enough weight since they aren't showing up ever.

What words do you think shouldn't be there?
WTF. How have I not heard about this, until now?
Grudges don't always follow rational courses of action.
Casablanca - Async/REST services toolkit for C++
First, http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174

Secondly, I can't find the quote/joke but basically, anything that is 5 years out to market is really 10, 10 years out is vaporware, 15 years out is AI. (If anyone has the quote/source to that general theme I'd love to get it)

Claiming viability in over 15 years from now means that things are in such infancy as it's highly likely another piece of technology will far surpass it in between.
Mood research in music – results and outputs.
You Can't Delegate Customer Development
IBM Boosts Server Performance, Security with New Chip
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You can link to a section with a URL. No "section xyz" or "page n" needed.
Ask HN: Discussion on the future of the WWW (and Tent, Bitcoin, etc)
Hey. So I read the posts here on HN fairly often (I have not posted an awful lot).

Lately, I have been interested in some new projects like Tent.io, OSatus, App.net, Bitcoin, Tor and ones related to quantified-self, privacy, easy registrations (Persona), semantic web.

It got me thinking about the future of the World Wide Web and maybe how it could be improved. I thought that maybe something new could be built that would improve on the current system by taking all the things I just mentioned into consideration since many are related or would be improved if they could easily communicate. When the WWW was first built many of the ways we are currently using it were not imagined, so I am interested in hearing ideas of how it could be improved if we were given the opportunity to 're-imagine' it.

I wrote some of my thoughts out in this post: http://jonovono.github.com/Wpp/.

I love the awesome discussions on here. And thought some interesting things could come out if we just had a general discussion on the Web/internet and anything related.

If you are interested in discussing this further, please email me: me@jonovono.com. I would like to explore this further and hope to hear your comments!
And getting lower tomorrow. And then going up in efficacy, while maintaining confidence. There's a ton more we can do with this. :-)
Porn, obviously. Thought 50mbps is a bit slow for fibre?
It's not really his idea, but it's probably a good one. I remembered it as being called a Tobin tax, but that really only applies to currency exchange. Instead, it's just a securities transaction tax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_transaction_tax#Secur... .
Hey I know a great business plan for a kickstarter-as-a-service, you let businesses create campaigns using the service in trade for a percentage of their revenue. You could call it.. Kickstarter!
Google working on smart-watch with flip-up, transparent display
Link to my 'article': http://jonovono.github.com/Wpp/
I don't personally think the top-left is hard to hit, but all apps I've seen that have a "back" button there (including third-party apps) also let you swipe right-to-left across the top bar to perform this action.
Calculating average mood for music artists using The Echo Nest API.
Original article:

http://txchnologist.com/post/32463368168/channeling-star-tre...
Netflix, just this week added a similar EULA...
I don't really know how to respond to this, but if any offence was caused then I apologise...
I entered my email but
I never got chapter 1. It just took me to a subscriptions page.
Pay to promote your Facebook posts
Presidential debate streaming live on YouTube
Twitter's actually the hardest nut to crack—pretty sparse user info available. Facebook and LinkedIn have a much higher hit rate, but they don't have such easy streams to grab.
Add this to the CSS:

div.chart {opacity: 1 !important;}

It is a hack but should work.
The best part about this is that now I know that the box-shadow property can take multiple arguments. The more you know...
You're telling me. :-) We spent 2 years getting all those lists together and normalizing them. We're midway through a refresh now—new normalization framework, new matching algorithms, etc., etc.
As with most things, this addresses symptoms and not the actual underlying problems. HFT have exposed all kinds of problems which existed since the inception of the various markets but only appeared recently.

For example, Regulation NMS is an important rule that was introduced to solve a major problem (ensuring price fairness in a decentralized environment) but it didn't make sense back then. However, given the physical constraints, the problems weren't apparent. Now HFT has highlighted the broken nature of the regulation. The right solution is to force a re-centralization of the exchanges, but instead of that people are pushing to stop HFT.
Yes, you can place a link. But the link, unlike the page range, points only to the place, not to the scope.
Whoops, no, I did the flash to give a pulse impression. The transition is unavoidable, but I did the opacity animation on purpose. :)
Looks like a few of you are a bit politically sensitive! ;)
I thought I had read it all at this point. I really like the deep dive into Object. No one ever goes beyond Object.create() and that's usually just as an example of how not to create new objects :)
I want a Ecce Homo version of this please ><
Good ideas, all. There are a couple more debates. :-)

In the meantime, if you want to play with filters, feel free to try this super-alpha toy I threw together the other day: https://www.votizen.com/twitter-fight/. It works on a rolling 24-hour window of Romney- or Obama-mentioning tweets. Buggy as heck, but fun to play with!
I like the idea and the execution, I hate reading the quality of the tweets. I try not to be a snob, but yikes.
Bizarre Species of Miniature Dinosaur Identified
Why are there so slow? Is this an engineering decision or a limitation of the environment they need to operate in?
I've always wanted to have story accepted on /.

But I've yet to submit one. :)
For any problem with optimal solution k, a superset of that problem formed by relaxing the rule set will have an optimal solution at least as efficient as k.

It comes up in AI a few times.
I first learned of Rap Genius in the Yale Alumni Magazine earlier this year, and concluded that the idea was clever but the business opportunity small.[1] Now that Rap Genius is expanding its target market to general text annotation, the business opportunity looks substantial to me. Off the top of my head, I'm thinking analysis of textbooks, critiques of literary works, and commentary on the news -- the potential uses are many. Hats off to the team.

--

[1] http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2012_05/feature_rap...
And here I am, upvoting the thread because I thought it's a statement about how ridiculous all the 'X in pure CSS' posts have gotten, while everyone else in this thread seems to be genuinely impressed.
7 thousand of them
It's about time we get a launch window before midnight on the East coast.
I prefer "bling bling JS"
yes its called a webpage with a payment processor like stripe.
Stupid Beagle Tricks, Part II: Developing with a tiny Linux system
Yeah, but you need to remember that the new "Kickstarter is not a store" rule means that companies/projects need to host their own page like Lockitron. Basically the rule created a market opportunity.
The other article has a nonzero information content, for a change:

http://txchnologist.com/post/32463368168/channeling-star-tre...

Summary: it's nuclear pulse propulsion (riding the shock wave of a nuclear explosion). Small nuclear explosions in this concept: they hope to create small (~1 ton TNT eq.) pure-fusion explosions using nanosecond bursts of extremely powerful electric currents (plasma Z-pinch). Basically, it's the same problem as fusion power plants based on "inertial confinement" (euphemism for "explosion").

Lithium is a progenitor of tritium. This is common D+T fusion.

This concept is not remotely close to practicality. Which is why the reported goal ("a mind-bending 62,600 mph") is bizarre; it's only a small factor better than chemical rockets. It's just as bad as e.g. nuclear thermal propulsion, which was designed and built 40 years ago. So I really don't see the point.
About ten years ago I made a converter application that converted a image (jpg/png/gif) to an HTML table. The result at the time was great. Unfortunately the generated HTML was quite verbose so it took a lot of bandwidth to download. I guess a similar conversion program has been used here and it seems that CSS these days can take off quite a bit of fat of that generated code.

PS: Forgot to mention. The reason I wrote the converter at the time was as an experiment to avoid people from right-click and saving images.
In the case of basic rights, why would you want to settle out of court?

i.e. if the ice skating rink from the above example is negligent in their requirement to provide a level of care, then they need to be punished by a court.
I secretly hope that this startup ends up producing many gems similar to the "Rap Battle Translated" video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6H0i1RAdHk

This would make it like a "meme in motion" generator. Like moot's Canvas but for video.
The previous Dragon cargo flight this year was a demonstration flight, this one is the first operational resupply mission.

Also relevant, the Cygnus spacecraft from Orbital Sciences Corp. is another ISS commercial resupply vehicle and is set to have its first demonstration mission soon (in early 2013). However, unlike the Dragon the Cygnus isn't designed around a manned capsule system and it burns up on reentry.
Starbucks Gets Passbook Support on iPhone
Bought it, have it sitting right above my Tweetbot app.

That said, it really hides the Global stream, and I'm not really cool with that. There's all kinds of good stuff in there.
NSA Whistleblower Reveals How To Beat a Polygraph Test
This is seriously cool! I've spent hours meticulously (manually) creating playlists around moods, thanks for sharing!
The benefit of typing javascript is for the developer and not the compiler, therefore telling closure compiler that a variable is a type is to decrease the chance of mistakes. Closure compiler also is buggy and isn't as smart as we would like to think it is, sometimes you have to prod it into the right direction. It was a simplified example, something better would be:

/** @type {myType} */ var thing = function_that_returns_a_myType( );

The point is using comments for typing a language is messy and takes up far more space than required.
Who cares if institutional traders can't figure out why the price is moving.

All traders do is arbitrage, computers are much better at spotting arbitrage opportunities than humans are. That institutional traders can't figure it out merely points to their irrelevance.

Now, on the other hand what we should be concerned about is if HFT is ruining the investment climate and since companies rarely offer their stock it almost certainly has no effect on the investment climate which looks at the macro conditions across years rather than the microclimate of the next few minutes as traders do.

The price of a stock, or the value of an index at any point in time has almost no relevance to the economy as a whole. What matters is that over long periods of time these companies deliver great value to their customers.

Lets worry about GS, et al, selling stock that doesn't exist (naked shorting) before we worry about HFT.
Sure, I was a student.. . now i'm a tech-focused entrepreneur. I work on a flexible schedule, usually at nights. Enjoy the day exercising, being with my gf. I can't think of any one in particular i'd like to just meet offhand, but usually when I do have free time to go out, I'd prefer to spend it with friends I know. I'm pretty sure most people here would feel the same..
Isn't that what already is happening when you sign for all kinds of "consumer clubs", accept credit card offer that you don't need but has nice signup bonus, register on some side in exchange for some bonus or ability to access free service, etc.?

Given that, I wouldn't mind to except some advertisers from my Ghostery and AdBlock lists in exchange for something heading my way, either in money or in some other perks. But I don't see how this would work - they really have no way to check if I uphold my part of the bargain and probably most people give it away for free anyway by not using blockers, so this program would have very small target audience.
Silicon Valley Code Camp. Oct 6-7 and free
I removed the on-update flash.
serious yet seemingly silly question: What do i call tweeting in app.net? apping?
The European Union is seriously considering adding a 0.1% tax against trades in stocks and bonds (and an 0.01% tax on derivatives). It would definitely curb HFT, and there's talk of it also generating needed revenue. The main criticism is that a transaction tax distorts the market in hard to predict ways, and that big players may work around it. The English Wikipedia article has a decent summary of the proposal status: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_financial_transa...
Jeez.

If your underlying method is pixels, you can render any image you want. I'm afraid I'm missing the "hack" here.
Personally I would rather share my movie watching habits with a few close friends (who are Netflix subscribers) than the 300+ acquaintances I have on Facebook. I want to explore movies based on trusted sources, not share with the world that I just watched season 3 episode 4 of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
"Planetary Protection Officer Catharine Conley" ... Best job title ever?
YouTube Alters Copyright Algorithms, Will ‘Manually’ Review Some Claims
Its not about "why would someone who is technical making $120,000 a year want to join your startup as a CTO for small pay and equity", it's about why would they want to work with YOU. You may think you're qualified, but most non-technical founders (which I assume is what you are) are not.
We get it, you can draw anything in "pure CSS".
It's a combination of a scientific and engineering limitation. The Curiosity rover's power source generates an average of about 1/6th of a horsepower of electrical power. In practice this is used to trickle charge the batteries of the rover over night and provide slightly higher total power during the day for driving, even so we're talking about a fraction of a horse power to drive a nearly one tonne vehicle the size of an SUV. The Opportunity rover is smaller and lighter (180 kg) but also solar powered and so has much less total energy to work with per day.

If the goal were merely speed we could build faster rovers but to do so would mean removing a lot of scientific instruments so we'd be able to get to different locations but then we'd only be able to do a tiny amount of science compared to what we can do with Curiosity or Opportunity.
Yes, except that you probably receive 10% of the real value of your data by joining rewards clubs. These guys offer you 90%.
Not entirely. This also requires HTML.
While some websites stop people from right clicking and saving (such as flickr) you can get around that by just screen printing. So why would you invest time in trying to stop one route of copying when there is a second unstoppable?
This article is long on inflammatory language and short on analysis or evidence.

There are plenty of real issues with HFT as currently practiced (front-running data feeds, gaming with flickering orders, dark pools, etc). However, the article ignores these real issues and suggests that liquidity itself is a bad thing (or something not worth having).

Liquidity means having the ability to transfer an asset quickly with minimal loss of value. Anyone who invests wants a liquid market -- illiquid securities are notoriously problematic.

The article is misleading. It is the absence of liquidity that is a disaster. Market crashes are what happens when liquidity dries up. Just ask anyone who was trying to sell their house last year.

As long as the rules are fair (no front-running, preferential trades, equal access, etc), every market participant adds value. Markets are auctions and auctions run best when there are active bidders.
I'll bite and try to give some hopefully useful thoughts...

You're not just asking someone to give up 120k and join your company, you're asking someone who's probably quite creative (assuming you're trying to hire the right guys) to get completely on-board with your vision/idea. That means:

* Give up $120k / yr (this is really unimportant in the grand scheme of things IMO)

* Give up their financial security (this is more important)

* Taking the big, long list of ideas that they'd want to implement and put yours at the top

* (Likely) give up far more time than they had to before

* Stepping away from what is hopefully a group of other smart people that they enjoy solving software problems with

You have to be careful that your pitches don't seem like "Well, I have this really great idea, you sit around and pour 5000 hours of your life over the next 18 months into implementing it exactly as I have envisaged, and I'll handle all of the business stuff! We'll totally split the profits down the middle!"

I almost fall into the group of people who you'd be looking for (maybe, though while I consult I haven't done a startup yet), and there are a few things that I'd be looking for:

* Confidence that (even if you weren't involved in any way) the product will make money (or a difference, depending on the developer).

* Interesting problems to solve. Browsium for instance probably have a hell of a time trying to hire developers, and if they weren't all coming from Microsoft, I'd imagine it would have been impossible to get a CTO.

* Confidence that you're actually going to be adding significant value, or at least bankrolling the venture. A lot of devs see a lot of non-technical roles as "easier", usually because they've never seen someone that's really great at the non-technical role. It's probably easier to hook someone by starting them contracting for you to build a prototype or something, I dunno.

I don't know how you're trying to bring people in, but you're also not hiring at this stage, you're pitching - trying to sell yourself (both ability as well as desire to add value) as well as your idea to these people. Maybe it's also SF, have you tried looking elsewhere for people?
It would also kill liquidity, which means next time we go into a recession and you hit the panic button on your 401k, I won't have a resting bid to catch you.

The problem isn't HFT, but rather dumb investors (like your pension fund) and bad vehicles (like leveraged ETFs and volatility-linked equity). Getting a good price is about subtle presentation of intent. If you're not willing to be subtle, you get what you deserve. Generally, pension funds choose the path of least intelligence and actually believe the sell side.

As for individual investors, if you don't know the difference between a market order and a limit order, you shouldn't be allowed to trade. Better yet, exchanges shouldn't allow market orders.

Soros wants the Tobin tax too... that alone should be a big red flag. The general public seems to think that regulations are written by "the people". Bullshit. They're written for "the people" by GS, JPM, etc... corporate lawyers will craft whatever implementation we get stuck with. Caveat trado!
Clients.
Do you have any more info on the paperwork part? I've been putting it off for a few months now and considering just registering in the US first to make things easier with US-based clients.
posting? Like every other website out there except twitter. I posted on HN, I redditted this cat picture?
How many developers - ones that would fit your criteria and be willing to join your startup - could afford to live off of savings for 1-3 years?
It still looks like an inferior clone. The typefaces are all wrong, the kudos button has a wonky shape. Its differences are just enough to hit the uncanny valley for me.
Crowdsourcing a potential treatment for the cancer that killed Steve Jobs
That will just kill liquidity and bias the market further towards larger agents. EU is going to shit anyways, so I'm all for it. Fug Capitalism. Viva 99%. (sarcasm intended)
Both of those were really entertaining, but I far prefer the translation version...

I'd also be interested in seeing white 17th century aristocrates engage in a duel whereby they use modern rap battle language whilst in the setting of a victorian sword/gun draw-style duel.
Sibyl Vision analyzes the debate with sentiment analysis
Real-Time Poll:  Who's winning the debates?
Binding arbitration is even better for defendants, though, since all they have to do is pay their friend the arbitrator to rule on their side. There are no checks and balances, no jury of your peers, no appeals process, and no reason for the arbitrator to ever side with you. If you sign a contract that includes a mandatory binding arbitration clause, it means one thing: the other side intends to violate the contract.
Let's clarify the implicit assumption you put in there: Why is it so hard finding a good technical co-founder? It's the same reason it's hard finding a good non-technical co-founder.

With a technical co-founder you're looking for proof of skill - they've done an app on no budget, limited time, and little sleep. Twice. They scaled it singlehandedly to 20m users. They not only know Node, they're on the core team.

What a technical co-founder is looking for is the exact same proof of skill. Can you sell ice cubes to Eskimos at 50% mark up? Can you get investment just by walking down Market? Do you have customers begging you to give them the privilege of sending you their money?

I wrote a blog post about this a few days ago [1]. The tl;dr: If you want a co-founder, earn one.

[1]: http://ryanlchan.com/post/32483578213/non-technical-founders...
> Netflix should build their own social network, for the heck of it.

Not just for the heck of it, it makes sense, they're in a perfect position to build last.fm for movies/tv. They could even run an open video scrobbler and lure in pirates little by little.